Independent press bestsellers: July 23, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending July 19, 2026.

You can see the full Independent Publishers Caucus top forty list for both fiction and nonfiction at Bookshop.org.

FICTION

1. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett 

2. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

3. John of John by Douglas Stuart 

4. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson 

5. Heart the Lover by Lily King 

6. Six of Crows: A Darker Shore, Letters from Ketterdam by Leigh Bardugo 

7. Taiwan Travelogue, written by Shuang-zi Yang and translated by Lin King 

8. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), written by Solvej Balle and translated by Barbara J. Haveland 

9. I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney 

10. Harvest Season by Brynne Weaver 

Nonfiction

1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

2. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

3. The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane 

4. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane 

5. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer 

6. Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian 

7. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

8. The Wreck of the Mentor by Eric Jay Dolin 

9. The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams 

10. Mutual Aid (new and expanded edition) by Dean Spade